Hattingen depot

The Hattingen / Ruhr depot was north of the Hattingen (Ruhr) train station on the Düsseldorf - Hagen line . It was in operation from 1869 to 1949. Today only the ground floor of the square water tower is visible.

history

The Hattingen / Ruhr depot was built and expanded between 1869 and 1922 for steam locomotives. A roundhouse with 14 stalls served from 1884 as a replacement for the BME's first provisional locomotive shed from 1869, which initially received an extension of two stalls in 1872.

In 1893/94, the Royal Elberfeld Railway Directorate expanded the locomotive shed by four to 16 locomotive stands. In 1916, eight shed stands were lengthened by three meters to accommodate longer locomotives. The plant was located between Bochumer Straße and the reception building, near the siding, which can still be seen today, and the four tracks on the Hattingen - Blankenstein line .

Before the Second World War, the depot operated primarily with class 74 tank locomotives - the Prussian T 12 - for passenger trains in the Ruhr Valley between Hagen and Essen, Hattingen and Rüttenscheid, but also via Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen to Düsseldorf (with water companies in Wuppertal-Mirke) as well as from Essen to Wanne-Eickel. Later it was also home to class 93 and 55 steam locomotives.

In 1941 the depot had 70 members. It was dissolved at the beginning of 1949. Until the final shutdown of the office in May 1951, the Hattingen / Ruhr depot became the operating department of the Dahlhausen / Ruhr depot in Bochum, today's Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum . It is thanks to the commitment of his employees that the Hattingen-Wengern railway line that runs past the Hattingen depot has been preserved to this day and can be used for museum train journeys.

Operating facilities

The operating facilities of the Hattingen / Ruhr depot included a roundhouse with a turntable and a chimney, a square water tower, a coaling, purification and sanding system and a washing stand. In the 1920s, an administration building was added.

The front of the 16-position roundhouse turntable lying had a diameter of 17.5 meters and was for turning passenger locomotives by the year 1962 in operation.

literature

• Harald Vogelsang: The BW Bochum-Dahlhausen and the railway in the middle Ruhr valley , Eisenbahn-Kurier Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-430-4 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 23 ″  E